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NCAA Bans 6 Men’s Hoops Players for Betting-Related Game Rigging The NCAA finds that six former men's basketball players partook in sports betting conspiracies in the latest betting scandal to rock sports.

The NCAA bans 6 college hoops players in latest sports betting scandal. Allegedly, players texted about a plot to "throw the game" (not exactly code words🕵️) + told teammates to not score. Athletes in betting plots risk not only NCAA bans but the feds could take a look. More on @sportico.bsky.social:

Sounds like you’ve almost got a Dr. Dolittle situation going on

This man thrifts all year to create free Halloween costumes for kids Christophe Waggoner scours Texas thrift stores for "anything shiny, sparkly or furry,” then gets it neat, clean and festive to give away for a Halloween costume.

Man thrifts all year to create free Halloween costumes for kids and dogs www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

This is Lucky. He assures you there's nothing to see here. And also nothing missing from the laundry basket. 13/10 (IG: luckythegoldenboy)

If you have a Little Free Library that’s ignored, it’s a good time to make it a Little Free Food Pantry. A few dollars each week can stock it, and community members often donate.

I started mine in 2020 and now local churches even drop off items.

I’m seeing a lot more people coming by for food.

Social media opens a window to traditional trades for young workers Worker influencers are showing what life is like in fields such as construction, plumbing and manufacturing. Trade schools are trying to make the most of it.

Great to see "worker influencers" providing more exposure for careers in the trades wapo.st/3UrwViI

Love this. Congrats to Gideon!

Any status updates?

That sounds so fun ❤️

I'll have to keep that in mind in case someone calls me a pimp 🤣

This is Sausage. His humans got him his very own swimming pool and he's obsessed with it. We asked them if he swims every day and they said, ”Every single day. He follows us around the house until we take him outside AND sit and watch him. If we’re not there he won’t swim." 14/10 good for him

I’d step up to that plate. Not sure who’d hire me though

Congratulations to the 2025 Mary Ellen Krug Award recipients! Calum Bryant, Teresa Dennerlein & Ates Serifsoy, three outstanding labor & employment law students from the U. of Washington Law School and Seattle U. Law School, were honored at the 2025 Pacific Coast L&E Law Conference #employmentlaw

How did he find them??

This is Ripley. He was nervous about taking the stairs. May have panicked a bit. 12/10

There’s a Common Misperception About the Supreme Court and NIL Fans, journalists & others have misstated the U.S. Supreme Court's role in NIL, a topic SCOTUS has not addressed and didn't address in NCAA v. Alston.

One of the most common and glaring mistakes I see in commentaries about NIL, the NCAA and sports law is the belief that the U.S. Supreme Court made NIL possible through the Alston case. It's wrong on multiple levels. My weekly @sportico.bsky.social sports law column: www.sportico.com/law/analysis...

Sounds perfect for you

JUSTICE KAVANAUGH delivered the opinion of the Court. Several unemployed workers in Alabama applied for unemployment benefits from the State. In their view, the Alabama Department of Labor has unlawfully delayed the processing of their benefits claims. So the claimants sued the Alabama Secretary of Labor in state court under 42 U. S. C. §1983, raising due process and federal statutory arguments and seeking a court order requiring the Department to process their claims more quickly. The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that the claimants could not sue under §1983 to challenge delays in the administrative process until the claimants completed that process. But that ruling created a catch-22: Because the claimants cannot sue until they complete the administrative process, they can never sue under §1983 to obtain an order expediting the administrative process. This Court’s precedents do not permit States to immunize state officials from §1983 suits in that way. See Haywood v. Drown, 556 U. S. 729 (2009); Howlett v. Rose, 496 U. S. 356 (1990). On that narrow ground, we reverse.

By a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court holds that states may NOT immunize state officials from certain federal civil rights lawsuits alleging unlawful delays in an administrative process (like the provision of welfare benefits). Kavanaugh and Roberts join the liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

I may go out and look for some dogs to pet

It was the deadliest workplace in America. So why didn’t safety regulators shut it down? OSHA issued over 180 citations and millions in fines to this Alabama sawmill, the deadliest workplace in America, but it kept operating.

“A medical examiner’s report detailed how just 23 pounds of one employee was recovered after he was caught in a machine.” Devastating @washingtonpost.com report bt Todd Frankel on OSHA failures www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

It almost seems like the beginning of a horror movie or book 🤣

So mysterious. I will ponder while I wait to learn more

Athletes Are Signing Endorsement Deals Before They Get Prom Dates So-called NIL rules opened up college athletics to brands looking for ambassadors. Some marketers are now finding even younger talent in high schools.

Brands are courting a new type of celebrity athlete: high-school kids

US Figure Skating has seen tragedy before: All about the 1961 world team plane crash. Feb 15 near Brussels.
Entire team lost their lives in the crash en route to the world championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

All 72 people, 11 crew members and 61 passengers all killed.💔

You too! You motivated me to get my own account started

Well deserved. Such a fantastic book

I did something like that once. With the same response 😂